September 30, 2013

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

Yeah, I don't know what the answer is-- last night they had a UFA and a 7th round pick manning the middle. It would be interesting to see if Armond Armstead comes off the PUP list. Otherwise, I think some kind of 3-4 might be their best bet. Wilfork hadn't been having his typical good season (there had been whispers he was hurt), but even in a down year he takes up two blockers most of the time (not against the Jets though). I guess it will mean more reps for the first round pick Jamie Collins.

The Jaguars may play well enough in St. Louis to screw up its chance of setting gambling line history. Justin Blackmon is back off his four-game suspension and was looking good in the preseason, and the Rams are the third-worst rushing defense this season. If Jones-Drew finds room to run and the Rams secondary can't key entirely off Cecil Shorts it could help the Jags impersonate a functional NFL offense.

""I look at Twitter now and I think, You know what, I've got more followers on Twitter than the network gets viewers. There's got to be a way to turn that into eyes on the show.' "

Sadly, Michelle, we still don't live in a world where humans can add channels to their cable packages on an a la carte basis, so to get NBCSN I have to jump up two packages and buy one hundred and twenty-nine other channels I don't want.

so to get NBCSN I have to jump up two packages and buy one hundred and twenty-nine other channels I don't want.

DirecTV gives me more sports channels than I can possibly watch at just the 2nd tier up from the bottom. True enough there are extra costs for HD receivers, DVR-capable receivers, and the like, but if you don't need all these things, it's fairly reasonable. I get NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Fox Sports, the house networks for the 4 major US sports (MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL), Big Ten Network, all of the ESPN constellation except for ESPN Classic, and the local sports cable channels, NESN and CSNNE. Golf and Tennis Channels are also included. The only problem I have with them is heavy rains interrupting the signal. It happens 3 or 4 times per year, and usually lasts for 15 minutes or less. I've also had to brush heavy snow off the antenna once.

It's been a long time since we were regular Sabada Gigante watchers, so apologies if this is out-of-date, but can someone explain the regular feature with the lion cave, the guy with the trumpet and white face paint and the little person?